When I was in Belfast in 81 (swings lamp here & puts on tin hat) I went to the Telephone House OP one day & went to the canteen there for scoff. Met Bobby Sands' father, who was a GPO phone engineer AND a Protestant! Sands Sr. told us his son had changed his religious affiliation when he got involved with the Shinners; he was also a pretty useless terrorist, got caught on his first job. His old man was deeply ashamed of what his son had done, & never spoke to him again after he got in deep with Adams & Co.